I have jaguars, green terrors, and jack dempseys that I occasionally provide rosy red feeders to. I put in enough for all of them, but the Jaguar seems to eat almost all of them. I think he ate 8-9 (maybe more), and he looked like he swallowed a marble -he is maybe 3" tops. Is there anything I can do to help prevent this (get him his own tank?), and I'm also worried he might get sick from how many he ate. I won't be putting any more feeders in until I have a solution, any one have any ideas?
Jaguar hogging feeder fish
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feeder fish are not of any value to you fish, could be more of a hinderance,,,the feeders could habour bacteria which intail could make your fish ill and there of no nutritonal value....its not worth it.....get a good qaulity pellet like hiraki
I agree with everyone else, but to answer your question there is probably nothing you can do unless you seperate him. But most likely one fish will probably always get more then the rest. You could just add a lot more so that way everyone is likely to get a few. BUt like everyone else said, they really serve no purpose and will do more harm then good
Exactly! beat me to it.balton777;2420959; said:
The other fish eat more along the lines of crustaceans etc. Look at the jaguar in comparison. The profile is much more predatory.
As everyone has said already.Feeders are not worth the risk. Low nutritional value from most store bought feeders not to mention the risk of introducing disease. Spending considerable time and effort raising your monsters only to loose them because of a store bought feeder just doesn't make sense to me when there are many good food options on the market nowadays.
Again, Managuense is a carnivourous specie, whom specialise in preying upon soft rayed fishes. Therefore, your Jaguar too (although captive bred and reared), is geneticly programmed to do so. Where as the other species mentioned are omnivourous, preferring other such meaty foods as mentioned, with a large amount of vegetable matter included.
I certainly wouldn't suggest feeder fishes to be lacking in nutritional value, yet they could, indeed, be carrying potentialy deadly parasites and what not. When including feeders (of any description) in the cichlids diet, i suggest doing so only on rare occassions. And that they undergo a lengthy period of quaranteen, along with a high quality diet and frequent, large volume water changes.
I certainly wouldn't suggest feeder fishes to be lacking in nutritional value, yet they could, indeed, be carrying potentialy deadly parasites and what not. When including feeders (of any description) in the cichlids diet, i suggest doing so only on rare occassions. And that they undergo a lengthy period of quaranteen, along with a high quality diet and frequent, large volume water changes.